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Sun fired off an X1-class solar flare, possible wide-area radio blackout (space.com)
31 points by ibejoeb on Oct 28, 2021 | hide | past | favorite | 5 comments


Some of you may enjoy this website: https://www.helioviewer.org/ (use . and , to move through time)

Helioviewer.org is part of the Helioviewer Project, an open-source project for the visualization of solar and heliospheric data. The Helioviewer Project is funded by ESA and NASA.

Also this one: https://sdo.gsfc.nasa.gov/data/

SDO: The Solar Dynamics Observatory is the first mission to be launched for NASA's Living With a Star (LWS) Program.

And that one: https://www.lmsal.com/isolsearch

iSolSearch -- a window into the Heliophysics Events Knowledgebase (HEK). iSolSearch and HEK are designed to guide heliophysics researchers to relevant solar data, and primarily to that acquired by the Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) with the Atmosperic Imaging Assembly (AIA) and the Helioseismic and Magnetic Imager (HMI).

.nasa and .edu websites are my favorite rabbit holes to get lost into.


For solar flares, I always like to check http://spaceweather.com too.


>>could hit Earth tomorrow (Oct. 29)

>>could reach Earth by Saturday or Sunday (Oct. 30-31)

>>could deliver a "glancing blow" to Earth sometime on Friday (Oct. 30)

I mean its just an estimate, but they could at least be consistent


Northern Lights (Aurora Borealis) forecast and alerts app for Apple iPhone and Android https://aurora-alerts.com/


Inconstant Moon.




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